An
advisory panel charged with looking at public safety in the wake of the
deadly Newtown school shooting agreed Friday to include in its final
report a recommendation to ban the sale and possession of any gun that
can fire more than 10 rounds without reloading.

The
Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, created by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy in the wake of the 2012 school shooting, plans to complete its
work next month. The report will include dozens of recommendations in
three categories: law enforcement and emergency response; safe school
design and operation; and mental health and wellness.

In
its interim report last March, the commission included the proposed gun
ban, which is opposed by the gun lobby and manufacturers. It would go
much further than a 2013 Connecticut law which, among other things,
expanded the state's assault weapons ban and barred the possession and
sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines.

"Whether
or not this law would stand the test of constitutionality is not for
this commission to decide," said former Hartford Police Chief Bernard
Sullivan, a member of the panel. "The commission has expressed very
strongly that this is a statement that is needed regarding the lethality
of weapons."

Commission
members said during a meeting Friday that they want to emphasize that
there needs to be more regulation of guns that can inflict mass
casualties, even if it causes some inconvenience to recreational
shooters.

Bill Whittle, with his usual condescending sarcasm, explains why the US murder rate is acceptable. He conveniently overlooks the fact that not a one of the countries listed with a higher murder rate than ours is what we call a 1st World Country. Inadvertently, he showed us where those countries are on the list when he put the US below Switzerland, Germany and the others, pretending that we have the same rate as Plano TX. Interestingly, when selecting pro-gun central, he didn't choose New Orleans or Baton Rouge.

A proposed bill would allow teachers in Texas to use deadly force
against students and be protected from any kind of prosecution.

The Teacher’s Protection Act would allow these teachers to use force
against students or anyone else on school grounds if they feel
threatened. Educators would avoid prosecution for “injury or death that
results from the educator’s use of deadly force” under the new
legislation.

Texas law already protects teachers from disciplinary measures if
they use reasonable force against a student. The law proposed by
Republican Rep. Dan Flynn would allow deadly force.

Association of Texas Professional Educators managing attorney Paul
Tapp told the Houston Chronicle that teachers in the state already have
some legal protections that allow them to use force under reasonable
circumstances.

In the quiet of a pre-dawn Saturday on a dead-end street, a father
came home and shot his family in their heads, leaving women in three
generations dead and a wounded 12-year-old girl calling 911, police
said.

"What I did, I cannot come back from," Jonathon Walker told
his brother by phone soon afterward, police said. And Walker did not
come back - police said he killed himself in his car on a desolate
street a few miles away, ending a burst of violence that stunned
relatives who said the family hadn't shown signs of trouble.

The
34-year-old security guard had killed his 7-year-old daughter, Kayla
Walker; his 31-year-old girlfriend, Shantai Hale; and Hale's mother,
Viola Warren, 62. His and Hale's older daughter, whom a relative
identified as Christina Walker, was hospitalized in stable condition,
police said.Investigators were trying to trace Walker's movements
before the shooting as relatives struggled to comprehend shootings that
struck them as inexplicable.

While
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said police had taken reports for
domestic incidents at the home in 2005 and 2006 for "nominal matters"
and Walker had been arrested twice in now-sealed cases, relatives said
they weren't aware of any family strife or concerns about Walker.